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Author | : James Hervey Simpson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806135700 |
In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navajo country in present-day New Mexico. Accompanying Simpson was a military force commanded by Colonel John M. Washington, sent to negotiate peace with the Navajo. A keen observer, Simpson kept a journal that provided valuable information on the party’s interactions with Indians and also about the land’s features, including important pueblo ruins at Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly. His careful observations informed subsequent military expeditions, emigrant trains, the selection of Indian reservations, and the charting of a transcontinental railroad. Editor Frank McNitt discusses the expedition’s lasting importance to the development of the West, and his research is enriched by illustrations and maps by artists Richard and Edward Kern. Military historian Durwood Ball contributes a new foreword.
Author | : James Hervey SIMPSON |
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Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : James Hervey SIMPSON |
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Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : James Harvey Simpson |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : New Mexico |
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Author | : Lawrence C. Kelly |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Verde Valley School (Sedona, Ariz.). |
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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Author | : Lawrence D. Sundberg |
Publisher | : Sunstone Press |
Total Pages | : 645 |
Release | : 2015-05-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611392373 |
Henry Lafayette Dodge has long been a familiar name in 19th century American Southwestern history. As one of the earliest and most effective Indian agents to the Navajo, he has been portrayed as a congenial, sympathetic and compassionate advocate for the tribe—a veritable role model. The Navajo knew him as Red Shirt, a man they came to respect, appreciate and trust. Those who knew Dodge admitted, although often grudgingly, that he had unrivaled influence over the tribe. By today’s sensibilities, Henry L. Dodge was hardly a role model. In his youth, he was irresponsible, hot-headed and violent. As an adult, he was sued for assault and battery, land fraud, breach of promises and misuse of public funds. He apparently couldn’t be trusted with money, his own or others’. Finally brought down by scandal, he fled Wisconsin in the dead of night, abandoning his career, his wife and his children, leaving them nearly destitute. How then should history assess him? Honestly: precisely as he was, an ambitious and imperfect man. The honest telling gives a straightforward account of not only Henry L. Dodge, but what became the veritable mythology of the West, from the bawdy old French Missouri river towns to the raucous lead mining districts of southwest Wisconsin, through the slaughter of the Winnebago and Black Hawk wars to the invasion of New Mexico and the chaos of the Indian frontier; it is a gritty personal tale of the true West.
Author | : Lawrence C. Kelly |
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Total Pages | : 220 |
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ISBN | : 9780835787444 |
Author | : Hampton Sides |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307387674 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.
Author | : Henry R. Voth |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Hopi Indians |
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